reapportionment
"reapportionment" is a 15-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“reapportionment” is uncommon English (frequency #84,660 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,660
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of reapportioning; a second or subsequent apportionment.
Corpus desk
Index EN-reapportionment · reapportionment · English
reapportionment · rank #84,660 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,660
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH reactance
Nearest frequency peer: reactance (-2 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “reapportionment”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Rapaport
Rapaport
15,348 corpus weight
- Rasool
Rasool
15,346 corpus weight
- reactance
reactance
15,343 corpus weight
- reapportion…
reapportionment
15,341 corpus weight
- redlining
redlining
15,334 corpus weight
- reductionism
reductionism
15,333 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “reapportionment” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | reapportionment |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 15 |
| Frequency rank | #84,660 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “reapportionment” in English
Rare enough to double-check
reapportionment is uncommon English at frequency #84,660 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for reapportionment, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: c. 1930 reapportion + -ment The correct English form is reapportionment, spelled R-E-A-P-P-O-R-T-I-O-N-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1The act of reapportioning; a second or subsequent apportionment.
- 2The act of reapportioning; a second or subsequent apportionment.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how reapportionment appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In this context Endean pointed to the upcoming reapportionment of congressional districts according to the 1980 Census figures saying, "Everyone is up in the air over what their district will look like. Liberals are afraid they'll be gerrymandered into conservative districts.
Etymology
c. 1930 reapportion + -ment
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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